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Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
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this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
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Just get a burner to travel. Quit bringing your phones here.
Better yet, don't go at all. Go to a country that's still a democracy.
I refused to travel to the US in the last Trump administration. I'm certainly not going to do it in this one.
imagine going on holiday in a country where they check your phone for memes
seeing the grand canyon seems cool but it can wait until that lunatic and his friends are gone
Keep in mind that TSA searching peoples' phones was already policy under the last few administrations. Which is part of why I wasnt interested in traveling there even before the lunatic.
I've been avoiding travel to the US since the Patriot Act that followed 9/11 started that kind of shit and more in general the US started moving away from Democracy and into Autocracy.
Last time I felt like traveling to the North American continent I just went to Canada instead for a whole month - sea kayaking in British Columbia, hiking in the Canadian Rockies, sightseeing in Quebec . Highly recommended by the way.
That should be against privacy laws in some countries and considering you can sue people from outside the US into the US court because of US rules it would make sense to have it the same with that human rights form one country exist in other countries. Sadly the world isn't built ontop of logic.
that's crazy honestly
I thought this was the onion but its real... :)
It seems the mentality of the United States rulership have shifted back to the dark ages.
I wonder if accusing people of being witches is next.
accusing people of being ILLEGAL
uhhh this is the new witch hunt buddy, except the townsfolk aren't in the mob.
"Land of the free"
"Freedom" just means "thing the fascist US government supports" when they say it. Fascists always co-opt the names of popular concepts and use them to try to legitimize themselves. "Wrapped in the American flag and carrying a cross."
I wonder if accusing people of being witches is next.
wouldn't be surprised
Absolutely!
I have family in the US. Uncles and aunts and cousins. One of my cousins have a child who I've never met. I would love to meet them all.
But there is no way I'm going to the states in the current condition. And even if the administration would be replaced, I think it would take years for the states to recover to the point where I would visit.
If they want to see you, they'll have to come to you.
not reading that. lemmy devs, please get on blocking "news" sources in the vein of sun, nypost, etc.
edit: I don't mean the mods should ban domains. I want the option to not show submissions from certain domains, like the ones I mentioned, as there's zero chance I'd ever read anything from them. a buncha reddit (and lemmy) clients have that option.
You mean implementing a functionality with which users can block posts from certain URLs to show up on their feeds?
boost for reddit (and lemmy) has the option to ignore posts from certain domains. since I have no intention ever reading anything from the domains I mentioned, I'd appreciate it in the web version.
That's not something the admins can do. Ask the devs for that.
Or educate yourself and learn to filter based on the source of the data. Doesn't mean the reporting is not factual but it may be embellished to serve a narrative.
That's why their comment above says "devs", not "admins" lol
I would like whomever downvoted my comment to please take back that downvote, thanks.
Must have been edited. It did say admins before.
doesn't look like it, there's no ninja edits on lemmy afaik
Sure there are. If you are on the web client, there's a three-dot-button below your comment. Press that and a popup opens up, where you can select "Edit" and there you go: ninja edit.
So according to my quick test here, my ninja edit registered as a regular edit. Not sure if this differs on different instances?
It only ever shows the timestamp of the last time you edited your post. And the post first containing the word "admins" and then "devs" does have the "edited" mark next to it. We don't know when or how often it was edited, only when the last edit was made.
Keep in mind that edits can take different amount of time to federate to different instances.
Yeah, and sometimes they don't reach different instances at all.
Lets teach that uneducated moron Vance the Streisand effect.
See - this is the thing with people going on about how its so oppressive in countries outside of "The West" where they will arrest people for insulting their king on Facebook or some shit.
We are no better. I'm not American but Britain does the same kind of shit. Read some declassified police case files, the cops pick on weird shit on people's phones.
Read some declassified police case files, the cops pick on weird shit on people's phones.
Care to link some?
And this is just for insulting the king's jester.
I've been in Britain before, they didn't check my phone
And even if, a meme about someone in the UK government would also not get you denied entry.
it would allow you entry
Most likely.
"It says here you are a terrorist, but on your phone there's a really funny meme about Starmer, so I guess it's all fine."
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